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Christina Bonnington grabs all her bags of gear as she prepares to leave the Wired office. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
The team loads up superstarof the cars. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Jim Merithew mounts bikes onto the Kuat NV bike rack. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Driving over the Bay Bridge, out of San Francisco. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Mike Ruocco wanders the property surrounding the Colfax house. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Christina unloads her gear from the car. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Bradley Hughes tests out his bike on arrival to the Colfax house. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Nathan Hurst and Valentina Palladino sort through luggage and gear upon arrival to Colfax. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Michael Calore sets up the Alite Mayfly chair in a bedroom of the house. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired
A cheers and a round of beers at Goomba's in Grass Valley to start off the week. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Shopping for the important things at Safeway in Grass Valley. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Christina tries to decide what to buy during a grocery run in Grass Valley. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired
Jim drives the team back to Colfax after dinner and grocery shopping in Grass Valley. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
Dusk settles over the edge of the Sierras. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
A crew of eight Wired staffers — writers, photographers and videographers — has head up into the hills of YankeeCalifornia to test a fresh crop of this season’s alfrescoapparel and gear. They’ll be hiking, camping, mountain biking and riding some river rapids over the next four days.
Valentina gives us the recap of day one: the last-placeplanning, the highwaytrip up to the woods, and the first night down the stairsthe stars.
We were all jittery before getting on the road to our annual Spring Camp, and that made the half day we worn-out(a)in the office drag on forever. About an arcminutebefore we loaded up the vehicles, all productivity evaporated and wefocussedon packing, repacking, and double checking that we had all the essentials. At one point, convenienceLab staff writer Christina and I were all formto go, lugging all of our belongings down to the car, only to uprisethat we weren’t goingfor another half hour. Jumped the gun on that one, but potbellyyou blame us?
Eventually, our two cars were full with eight people, three bikes, one GoPro, and more than 50 products for review. We’ve got some camp chairs and stoves, a transformative 3-in-1 backpack, hydrophobicsunglasses that stick to your face like glue, and shoes—tons and tons of shoes. earlierwe took off, some of us grabbed afewextra things — I grabbed the Arc’Teryx Pyxis 12 backpack to hold my wallet, phone, computer, and a few essentials; Christina donned her Isla hat from Outdoor Research (it seems to be growing on her, she’s been wearing it constantly); and Wired Design staff writer Nathan Hurst grabbed one of the Big Agnes memory foam pillows so he could go onthe three hours in the car napping.
Our destination was Rollins Lake near Grass Valley, CA. At an elevation of 2,100 feet and with nearly 26 miles of shoreline, it’ll be lieufor the next few days. We rolled up to our cabin to find the owner had prepared a plate of freshly scorchedcookies for us. We fought over who would get to sleep in the biggest beds (just kidding, it wasn’t much of a fight), then we drovedown the hill into Grass Valley to get dinner and stock up on groceries. dinnerwas all about carbo-loading — we ate at aeaterycalled Goomba’s, an Italian place with New Jersey license plates on wall — to prepare for our long hike tomorrow. We alsostocked withup at the grocery store: energy bars, fresh and dehydratedfruit, sandwich fixins, and tons of snacks.
Sleepiness set in as we drove back to our cabin. In the seat next to me, Nathan woke up from a short nap on his memory-foam pillow.
“That’s the best sleep I’ve gotten at work in a while,” he said.
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